Ippadiyum sila manidhargal

We are looking for alliances for my sister. We get to know a lot of people, families in this process. Some are really good to know and we feel part of their family. Some are weird and we are happy that they show their attitude now and not later. Sila per solrathu elaam sirichutu vitudalaamnu thonum. Sila per solrathu hurting'a irukum.

A few dialogues that we came across:

* After exchanging the family details, photo, horoscope, phone calls, our Josiyar said that a guy's horoscope is not suitable. But payan veetla jaadhagam elaam nalla irukunu sonaangha. So, we arranged for a meet, and the guy was so weird in his activities (needs a separate post). 2/3 days naangha elaam yosichutu, my mom called the guy's father and told that we will not be able to take this further. That gentle man is a lawyer, so he was so commanding in the whole process.
He immediately shouted and said "evlo problems unghalalaa. payan photo kaekareengha, email id kaekereengha, torture paniteengha".

* Another pen paarkum padalam. Payan amma, appa, paati, chithi, chithappa, mama etc everyone came to see my sis. At the end, my mom asked them when it would be possible for us to meet the groom.
payan paati: oh unghaluku payana paakanumaaa?
my mom: ??!?!!

* Recent'a we got 3-4 profiles from a matrimony center. Amma dhaan oru list pottu, elaar details'um ezhuthi, fulla maintain panitu irukaangha. Once the horoscope matched, she called a groom's father, to ask for the guy's recent photo.
His father: "unghaluku idha munaadiyae en payan expectation solanum"
Amma (wondering): oh ponnu education/work expectation irukaangha?
Father: "ennana, avan daily'ae oru oru foreign country ku pora maathri velai irukum. Veedu kooda vaangitaan. So, avan status ku ponnu irukanumnu nenaikaraan."
Amma (still confused): oh apdineenghala
FAther: "adhaan oru Flat'um oru car'um ponuku koduthurungha"
Amma (manasula sirichutae): "apdeenghala..saringha, photo paathutu naan apram pesaren"

She marked a X mark for this guy in her list :-) (phone'la idha solrappa sema comedya irunthathu).

Ippadiyum inum makkal irukaangha. OMG!

J

Interior Decoration

Busy home cleaning this Sunday. I am a cleanliness freak. I do a mini house cleaning everyday and major cleaning once in a month or when I have guests or whenever I see the need for it - whichever comes earlier. April - May school courses got over on Saturday and another couple of courses have started today. So, I had Sunday off, and I took the cleaning task.

In the middle of cleaning, I felt that the arrangement of things in the hall was boring (1.5 yrs'a adhae place) and wondered if I could change it. (I was watching Design on a Dime show on HGTV, may be that was the reason :p). I am a fan of 'freestyle' show too. I used to watch when I came to USA but not anymore. Is this show coming these days? So, A and I had a quick layout discussion (ahem!) and finally changed the direction of couch, dining table, coffee table and TV. Wow, quite refreshing! etho pudhu place'la iruka feeling.

I love to learn the interior decoration techniques. There are lot of ways of doing things. But when we study the field, we know the right way of doing things or at least know why we are doing something. I realized this from my Web Design classes.

Have a great week,
J.

It's show time

Ah, finally bought a car this year :-) habba, evlo search and research work for this task. We booked the car (Honda Civic LX 2007 model) last month and got the car home last Saturday. It was a journey buying the car itself and other stuff like insurance, title transfer, taking driving lessons, bringing the car home, resident parking permit..ssss abbaaa kanna kattadha korai dhaan.

inimae car journey supera irukumnu nenaikaren. I am soooo excited :-) I love driving and especially on a cloudy/rainy day playing my fav songs - woooo :-)

Thanks to my friends and a very special thanks to Me for all his time and patience in replying to my queries. Thank you so much, Me!

J

A Trip to Atlantic City

Its been more than 2 years since we live in NJ and we haven't visited Atlantic city. We used to plan but something comes up and we kept postponing. A friend is here on his business trip, so we had a chance to plan for this trip yesterday. It was a short trip. We started from NY yesterday noon and came back by 12 in the night. 

We have never been to casinos before, so we had a good time. We went by bus and got down at Trump Plaza.

We didnt know where to start in the casino but started playing on a machine. A started with 5$ and lost everything. I too started with 5$ and to my pleasant surprise I won 64$. I was full of smiles when the machine started adding money and rang the bells continuously to annouce the winner. We were all curious as when the counting would stop :p

A kept trying with 5, 10 and 20$ and didnt win anything. I played with the money I won and won 20$ again. We kept moving from machine to machine and had fun. When we were roaming around, A showed us a machine with 5 written on it. I and our friend immediately thought it was a 5c/credit machine and inserted a 5$ bill. sema aapu - it swallowed our bills and allowed for one spin :D

We had some snacks and continued to walk near the beach. It was so cold yesterday. Anyway, we knew the weather and arranged for the trip as we have other plans for the forthcoming weekends. 

We moved to Caesars, Ballys and Wild west casino and played randomly, lost around 80$. Before we decided to start back, we tried a game. thani thaniya vilayadama, I and A played together. Mudhal Mariyadhai'la Sivaji, Raadha senthu meen pidikara raasi maathri ;-) and yeyy,  luck was on our side. We won 115$ :-) Since it was a 5c credit game, the points kept adding before it reached ~2000. So, we were like all excited and laughing. 

Our bus was at 9.15pm and we headed back to NY and reached by 11.30pm. We then reached home by 12.30pm. It was a fun trip :-)

J

Motivation

Glimpsing through the book 'The Success Principles' (by Jack Canfield) motivated me enough today. Planning to read that book soon.

Srinivas's Songs

I happened to listen to this song "Kaiyil midhakum kanava nee" from Ratchagan and loved it so much. I dont know how I missed it when the movie was released long back. Srinivas sung that song. I did not immediately get a list of Srinivas's songs on my mind. Like, Hariharan nu sonnaalae, I can recollect so many songs..antha maathri varalai...But coincidentally when I listened to some of my playlists recently, I found quite a number of my favorites sung by him. Here is the list:

* Poovukkellam siragu muLaithathu - Uyirodu Uyiraga

* Indha nimidam - Pallikoodam

* Uyirilae enathu uyirilae - Vettaiyaadu viLaayadu

* Mounamae unnidam  - Mozhi

* Azhage sugama - paarthale paravasam

* Nenjam Ennum - Aaru

* Mangalyam Thanthuna - Alai Paayuthe

* Apple pennae nee yaaro - Roojakootam

J

Ellaa Pughazhum Iraivanukae!

2 Oscars to A.R. Rahman! Yayyy! :-):-)

J

Fav Food

Of late, my fav food is lemon rice (my preparation). evlo saaptaalum thigaatama silathu pidikum la...antha maathri. India la irukum pothu, that my was least fav dish. Now, I have become an expert in preparing lemon rice and love eating it too :-)

Which is your favorite food?

J